TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jun 14, 2024

U.S. Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Brentwood and Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota have introduced a bipartisan bill that would establish a national human trafficking database at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Tennessean reports that the program would compile state-level trafficking crime data, streamline connections with anti-trafficking and survivor support organizations, create incentives for state agencies to report data, and provide federal grants to support collection and reporting of data. A risk assessment index outlined in the bill is based on the success of a Tennessee data collection program facilitated by Belmont University’s Data Collaborative.